Rebecca Kukla

Rebecca Kukla, "a philosopher by training and by birth, now spends as much of her time studying the ethics and culture of women's health care, and collaborating with obstetricians and anthropologists, as she does on more traditional philosophical topics such as the nature of objectivity and the role of the imagination in cognition. The daughter of philosopher André Kukla and the wife of philosopher Richard Manning (also at Carleton), she is curious to see whether the philosophy bug has been passed on to her five year old son, Eli, who currently prefers painting and paleontology. However, she is pretty sure that her dogs, Tobiko Nori and Toro Temaki, have little more than bemused contempt for the philosophical life.

"Rebecca grew up in Toronto, except for a couple of years during which her recovering hippy parents tried their hand at roughing it in a hand-built house at the edge of a live volcanic crater in Hawaii. She will soon receive her Sommelier Certificate from Algonquin College, and in her spare time she likes to practice her wine-drinking skills, preferably to the accompaniment of her husband's spectacular cooking. She wishes that she had someone to play chess with. She has held invited visiting positions at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Victoria, and the United States Department of Agriculture. She is currently completing a book with Mark Lance, entitled 'Yo!' and 'Lo!': The Pragmatic Topography of the Space of Reasons, as well as working with an interdisciplinary team of scholars on the representation, communication, and use of risk data in obstetrics."

Grants CV

 * 2009 University of South Florida Humanities Institute Research Award, “Recognizing Norms”, $5000.
 * 2006-9 SSHRC Standard Research Grant, “Autonomy and the Negotiation of Information in Reproductive Health Care”, $100,565.
 * 2006 University of Michigan Institute on Women and Gender, “Risk in Obstetrics”, $7500 US
 * 2005 Carleton University, “Representations of Risk in Obstetrics”, $4000
 * 2000 SSHRC, “Science as Social Practice”, $2600
 * 1999 SSHRC, “Myth, Memory and Misrecognition in Epistemology”, $3000
 * 1998 SSHRC, “Myth, Memory and Misrecognition in Epistemology”, $3000
 * 1997 National Endowment for the Humanities, $1200 U.S. + travel/living, summer research institute on Background Practices, UC-Santa Cruz.
 * 1994 National Endowment for the Humanities, $1400 U.S. + travel/living, summer research institute on Embodiment, UC-Santa Cruz
 * 1991 Mellon Fellowship for Summer Language Study (French, La Pocatière, Quebec)

Service to the Profession

 * Co-coordinator, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Network, 2008-2010.
 * Philosophy subcommittee program chair, American Society of Bioethics and the Humanities, 2009.
 * Review Committee Member, American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship Program, 2008-2009.
 * Program Co-coordinator, Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Congress, Croatia 2008.
 * SSHRC Doctoral Fellowship National Committee, 2006-2008.